KernelTrap: Junio Hamano New Git Maintainer

“The git directory content manager was born in early April of
2005, less than a week after the announcement that BitKeeper would
no longer be available free of charge to kernel developers. The
tool was originally written by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and
rapidly evolved with the help of an active developer community
which Linus repeatedly noted he hoped would eventually take over. A
scant two months after development on the tool began, the 2.6.12
kernel was released, managed by git…”

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